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Establishing vegetative filter strip on rill-irrigated row fields
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Establishing vegetative filter strip on rill-irrigated row fields

Brian W. Bodah, Jeffrey L. Ullman, Mark Stannard, R. Troy Peters and William L. Pan
Fact sheet (Washington State University. Cooperative Extension), 216E, Washington State University Extension
04/2016
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/6282
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Agricultural pollution—Purification--Washington (State) Irrigation--Washington (State) Sediment control--Washington (State)
The establishment of vegetative filter strips (VFSs) on the ends of rill- or furrow-irrigated crop fields has proven to be an effective best management practice (BMP) to lower the suspended sediment and soluble nutrient load originating on irrigated farmland. However, these reductions can only be achieved if the VFS is fully established before the crop irrigation season begins. This portion of the WSU Extension series on VFSs provides tips on establishing VFSs.

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